Gunmen shot and killed a 58-year-old in an attack at a village in Turkana County.
The body of Peter Lokuruka Ekai, 58, was found on the roadside moments after he had been shot in the head on Wednesday, January 31, police said.
His wife was spared of the 6 pm attack.
Police who visited the scene said the gunmen escaped soon after they had killed the man.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
This came days after at least four people were killed in two separate attacks by bandits in Baringo and Turkana Counties.
These are the latest such attacks to happen amid operations to address the menace.
According to police, the first incident happened on Sunday, January 27 afternoon in Nakwakal village.
An unknown number of gunmen raided the village and killed three villagers.
They also injured two others who were admitted to the hospital with serious wounds, police said.
Officials said four goats and a camel were shot dead.
The attackers made away with 200 camels and an unknown number of goats.
Multi-agency teams had pursued the gang and laid an ambush in the Ngolong area but the attackers who sensed danger changed their route.
This was after they had killed the three and injured two others.
The injured victims were rushed to Lodwar County Referral Hospital where they were undergoing treatment while the bodies were removed to the same hospital morgue for postmortem.
In Loruk, Baringo County, a 32-year-old man was shot dead by gunmen who raided Ng'aratuko area.
A team of police officers responded and engaged the raiders in a shoot-out and managed to repulse them.
The injured civilian was rushed to Marigat subcounty hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Officials said more resources had been mobilised to the area to confront the marauding bandits.
There are fears the affected will retaliate which will lead to more deaths and displacements.
The attacks have affected development in the area in general.
The incidents come amid insecurity in the North Rift region where the government has been intensifying its efforts to restore peace.
Dozens of firearms have been recovered in the operation.
Despite a heavy police presence in the marked areas, armed bandits have continued to attack, kill and rob residents before retreating to caves and forests from where they monitor the public and security personnel as they plan further attacks.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki was in parts of Baringo, Laikipia and Samburu last month as part of efforts to heighten the war on the gunmen.
He said politics, ethnicity, culture, religion or other affiliations must be separated from the fight against the criminal atrocities perpetrated against the people of Kenya through the terror of bandits.
“The government is determined to permanently destroy the intricate infrastructure of banditry by going for its benefactors, beneficiaries, accessories, planners and executors,” he said.
He said political and other leaders must refrain from politicising security matters or trying to meddle with security operations to allow the organs and agencies to wage a decisive, ruthless and conclusive war against the impunity and terror of banditry.
The CS said multi-agency security officers deployed in the six North Rift Valley counties will remain on the ground for the long haul until the banditry menace is eradicated.
The affected counties include Turkana, West Pokot, Baringo, Laikipia, Marsabit and Samburu. Isiolo is also partially affected by the issue.